Compression programs

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

Try the -z option, to gzip instead of bzip2.

Ben

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Darryl W. DeLao Jr. wrote:

> When I run this with the -j option, it stops if someone has a particular
> file open on the network.  Is there a way to bypass this and make it
> continue anyway, without hurting the end user that has the file open?
> 
> Thanks,
> Darryl
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Rino Mardo
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 9:59 AM
> To: ddelao at oucpm.org; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Compression programs
> 
> if you haven't already, you could use the "-j" option with tar to
> compress with the bzip2 program. for example, "tar jcf tarfilename
> <files>". this should do the trick. ;-)
> 
> hth.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 09:55:50 -0600, Darryl W. DeLao Jr. <ddelao at oucpm.org>
> wrote:
> > What is the best program for Linux use as far as compressing files goes?
> > 
> > I have shares that I tar up every night, but Im not impressed with the
> final
> > size of the tar file.  Winrar on my Windows machine can do much better
> > compression, but I would like to keep this on the server side so I can
> > schedule jobs to do it all.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Darryl
> > 
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